Garden-shears.



110.894.310; Y 'v PATENT-5111111.11211, 1908.

W. SELLBY'.

GARDEN SHEARS. APPLIGATION FILED 11119.12. 1907.

WITNEssEs ATToR NEYs y emitan STATES' PATENT ortica.

WALTER SELLEY, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO `ROBERT LAMB,

i OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. v 1

GARDEN-SHEARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

p Patented July 28, 1908.

Application led August 12, 1907. Serial No. 388,130.

To all who/m it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER SELLEY, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at 36 Crescent road, Oheetham Hill, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garden-Shears, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionfrelates to an improvement in garden shears to enable them to be adapted either for the purpose of edging grass lawns or borders, flat cutting, hedge cutting and the like. v

In tle accompanying drawing illustrating my invention Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig.

2 an edge view of a pair of arden shears.A

Fig. 3 is a side view with the b ades set .at an angle. Fig. his a side view of the same slightly modified.

v In these views the same letters refer to like parts.

The object of my invention is tol enable one pair of garden shears to be utilized for the various purposes as hereinbefore named, in place of requiringspecial shears for each class of work. y

Referring to the drawing, the heel of the blade a is formed with or connected to a short straight shank b and the blade c is formed with or connected to a short' angular shank d, the two blades being connected by a rivet e passed through these shanks as shown, the blade c thereby'having a drawing or shearing action. I make the upper end of each shank in the form of a hinge, and con nect this to a spike f, that is driven into the handle and whose end is correspondingly formed. I do not confine myself to the precise form of said hinged joint, it may be as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, in whichl a convex semi-circular endg lits into a concave semicircular end y', with recesses and projections therein and thereon, said ends being fastened together by thumb screws, or they may be formed flat with recesses and projections therein' and thereon, as shown in Fig. 4 and secured together in like manner, or said ends may be of other preferred form. means the position of the blades relatively with the handles may be changed either from being in the same plane to any required angle or the reverse.

I claim as my invention 1. A pair of shears having handles, blades provided with Shanks, means in connection with the latter for ivoting said blades together and a pivotaFconnection between the respective shanks and handles whereby the position of said blades may be changed with respect to said handles, substantially as described.

2. A pair of shears having unconnected handles, blades provided with Shanks, means in connection with the latter for pivoting said blades -together so as to secure a shearing action and a pivotal connection between each of said shanks and handles respectively whereby the position of said blades may be By these changed with respect to said handles, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my l` WALTER SELLEY.

Witnesses:

THos. PREsooTT, J. vERNEST HUGHES. 

